Making a dog's breakfast of your beer mash
Did you ever finish brewing your beer and then think, man there's a lot of the grain left over, what should I do with it?
You can do a lot of things actually, you can make bread or crackers, or it to your compost or garden.
But I found a recipe that's pretty novel - you can make dog biscuits with it!
That's right, give your dog a treat by making them some yummy dog biscuits out of left over grain mash.
Here's the biscuit mash recipe
- 4 cups of spent grain mash
- 4 cups of ordinary flour
- 1 cup peanut butter (or oil or pizza sauce)
- 1 egg
Bake the doggy treats for 30 minutes at 350F/180C. Then reduce heat to around 225F/110C and leave in oven until the biscuits have completely dried out.
It's been pointed out by other brewers that hops can potentially be harmful to some breeds of dog, don't use grain that has been first wort hopped to make the dog biscuits.
Other ideas on how to dispose of beer mash
- Feed to chickens or pigs
- Add to your compost or mix into your garden directly.
- Throw it on the lawn or birdfeeder, the local birds will love the feast
- Add some to your own bread recipe
- Turn it into beer crackers
Well done you for recycling some food.
I wonder how many weevils are in your grain right now?
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